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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
OK. The parallel isn't perfect. I'm just saying that the complaints that people seem to have about the quality of governmental decisionmaking vis-a-vis land use don't seem to be addressed by the public/private distinction at issue in Kelo.
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Maybe not directly, but the point of a constitution is to establish certain bedrock rights than even a majority, or an ill-informed majority, cannot take away. Kelo reduces those protections in the case of property takings by saying that, essentially, majority rule is always fine.
